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So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I've absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an article talking about how much they hated it. Personally, I don't understand the hate, as you can simply choose to have the color be a dullish blue manually.

Idk, it might just be that I haven't been using android long to care about the fact that material you is being forced.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  1. Having a cohesive color scheme that matches one's wallpaper is aesthetically pleasing. If you would like to manually select a color, you already can in the color sections select a color. If you would like more control, I suppose there is Repainter.

  2. Not aware of this happening when I was on Android 14? I assume it was for an improvement?

  3. Because it's an improvement? Why not totally stop upgrading Android?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I can set that myself if I want that. Let me be in control of my own device

Visual changes are by subjective, so there's no such thing as an "improvement". I would say reverting it to the previous UI is an "improvement". I'm not talking about not upgrading Android. I'm not talking about not adding new features. I am specifically talking about changing the UI. Why remove buttons and replace them with swipes? Why change colors? Why rearrange the settings? All it does is make it harder to use the device for people who are used to having it a certain way.